I'm a writer in the USA working on a book about Paul Simon, to be published by Henry Holt & Co. at some indeterminate point in the not-distant future.

I will soon visit the UK to research Simon's era in and around the folk clubs of England and Europe, and am eager to speak with anyone who might have information and/or memories and insights to share.

I have already contacted a pretty good array of folks, but there are a few who seem to have vanished and I'm wondering if any of you might know where they might be found.

David McCausland - The co-manager of the Brentwood Folk Club in Essex during the early and mid-60s. Even his partner David W Rugg, has no idea where he's gone. Does anyone out there have any knowledge of his current whereabouts?

I didn't start going to Brentwood Folk Club until about 1970 so this was before my time and I didn't know those people. However Geoff Harris who was running the club by that time is an occasional visitor on here, although he posted in this thread as a guest so may not be a member.

I missed Paul Simon's floor spot at The Victory Club in Cheltenham sometime in 1964 but was there the following week when the regulars were still reeling from the experience of having been subjected to an American - playing a guitar, not a commonly seen or welcome in certain clubs in those days.

He'd obviously tried out one of his new songs and I overheard one of the regular's comment, "How apt, a miserable song by a most peculiar little man - ha, ha!"

To be fair, that was the place where I first heard the Songwainers sing the Copper Family version of Spencer The Rover, which broadened my musical horizons forever.